Two jailed for £500,000 underground cannabis farm near Wolston
Warwick Crown Court on 26 October 2026 jailed Gjergivatal Pjeter and Eldoh Sylaj for 22 months each after they admitted producing cannabis at a subterranean farm reached through a hatch in a shipping container near Wolston; police had raided the site on 19 August and valued the crop at about £500,000.
🇬🇧 Wolston, Warwickshire · United Kingdom
- Charged
- 2
- Prison
- 22 months
- Value (official estimate)
- GBP 500,000
On 19 August 2026 Warwickshire Police searched a shipping container in countryside near Wolston and
found a hatch leading to an underground cannabis farm.[1] Five people on the site were arrested;
two were later charged and three bailed.[1]
Gjergivatal Pjeter, 33, of New Market Street, Birmingham, and Eldoh Sylaj, 31, of Upper Stone
Street, Maidstone, admitted being concerned in producing Class B cannabis.[2] At Warwick Crown Court
on Monday 26 October 2026 they were each sentenced to 22 months in prison.[2]
Police estimated the crop at about £500,000.[2][1] The court ordered the cannabis destroyed and each
man to pay a £187 victim surcharge.[2]
Sources
- Subterranean cannabis farm discovered near Warwickshire village. BBC News, 21 August 2026.
- Men jailed over underground cannabis production in Warwickshire. BBC News, 27 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- Police arrested five people on 19 August 2026 but only Pjeter and Sylaj were charged and sentenced in the accounts opened.
- Neither BBC nor Warwickshire World gave a plant count or weight for the crop; only the £500,000 estimate.
- The three bailed Coventry men aged 42, 43 and 63 were not further described in the sentencing coverage opened.